December 16, 2024 at 10:04 AM
New preprint! We identified many components that localize to the structure involved in "eating" in a marine organism.
#ProtistOnSky #diplonemid
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#ProtistOnSky #diplonemid
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
April 1, 2026 at 6:23 AM
New preprint! We identified many components that localize to the structure involved in "eating" in a marine organism.
#ProtistOnSky #diplonemid
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#ProtistOnSky #diplonemid
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Gift of the week end 😍 lovely choanos from Bretagne
#protistonsky
#protistonsky
May 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Gift of the week end 😍 lovely choanos from Bretagne
#protistonsky
#protistonsky
DAY 371
SPECIES 371 - Cyphoderia ampulla
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
C. ampulla is a widespread shelled amoeba found globally in freshwater sediments, Sphagnum moss, and debris
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistonsky
SPECIES 371 - Cyphoderia ampulla
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
C. ampulla is a widespread shelled amoeba found globally in freshwater sediments, Sphagnum moss, and debris
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistonsky
June 11, 2026 at 7:31 AM
DAY 371
SPECIES 371 - Cyphoderia ampulla
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
C. ampulla is a widespread shelled amoeba found globally in freshwater sediments, Sphagnum moss, and debris
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistonsky
SPECIES 371 - Cyphoderia ampulla
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
C. ampulla is a widespread shelled amoeba found globally in freshwater sediments, Sphagnum moss, and debris
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistonsky
DAY 400
SPECIES 400 - Telonema antarcticum
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
NOTES: Got in late tonight, wasn't able to add detail
Telonema antarcticum is a common marine flagellate
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistonsky
SPECIES 400 - Telonema antarcticum
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
NOTES: Got in late tonight, wasn't able to add detail
Telonema antarcticum is a common marine flagellate
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistonsky
July 10, 2026 at 7:20 AM
DAY 400
SPECIES 400 - Telonema antarcticum
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
NOTES: Got in late tonight, wasn't able to add detail
Telonema antarcticum is a common marine flagellate
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistonsky
SPECIES 400 - Telonema antarcticum
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
NOTES: Got in late tonight, wasn't able to add detail
Telonema antarcticum is a common marine flagellate
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistonsky
DAY 393
SPECIES 393 - Trichodina pediculus
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. pediculus is a saucer shaped ciliate protozoan that has a central adhesive disc lined with hooks that it uses to attach to freshwater fish
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistonsky
SPECIES 393 - Trichodina pediculus
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. pediculus is a saucer shaped ciliate protozoan that has a central adhesive disc lined with hooks that it uses to attach to freshwater fish
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistonsky
July 3, 2026 at 9:37 AM
DAY 393
SPECIES 393 - Trichodina pediculus
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. pediculus is a saucer shaped ciliate protozoan that has a central adhesive disc lined with hooks that it uses to attach to freshwater fish
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistonsky
SPECIES 393 - Trichodina pediculus
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. pediculus is a saucer shaped ciliate protozoan that has a central adhesive disc lined with hooks that it uses to attach to freshwater fish
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistonsky
New preprint alert! 🦠🔬
We quantitatively evaluated the swimming and flagellar movement of Chattonella, a red-tide alga.
Chattonella has two unequal flagella, and we found a positive correlation between anterior flagellum length and swimming speed. #protistonsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We quantitatively evaluated the swimming and flagellar movement of Chattonella, a red-tide alga.
Chattonella has two unequal flagella, and we found a positive correlation between anterior flagellum length and swimming speed. #protistonsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 20, 2026 at 3:33 PM
New preprint alert! 🦠🔬
We quantitatively evaluated the swimming and flagellar movement of Chattonella, a red-tide alga.
Chattonella has two unequal flagella, and we found a positive correlation between anterior flagellum length and swimming speed. #protistonsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We quantitatively evaluated the swimming and flagellar movement of Chattonella, a red-tide alga.
Chattonella has two unequal flagella, and we found a positive correlation between anterior flagellum length and swimming speed. #protistonsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
So proud! Congrats Varsha and the whole team for this incredible study! #protistonsky
So happy to share our new paper out now in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We establish Pirsonia-Coscinodiscus as a model pathosystem and uncover how this tiny parasite infects and kills bloom-forming marine diatoms 🌊🦠 rdcu.be/fuQyF
July 22, 2026 at 11:02 AM
So proud! Congrats Varsha and the whole team for this incredible study! #protistonsky
Our study on the first rhodopsin channels known to respond to UV light is now published in PNAS! And they come from our favourite protists, apusomonads! #protistonsky
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Our study on the first rhodopsin channels known to respond to UV light is now published in PNAS! And they come from our favourite protists, apusomonads! #protistonsky
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
We’re back with the next DinoSphere Online Seminar!
Join us on Nov 4th, we're hosting:
Edmée Royen (ULiège) - Symbiodinium
Nicolas dos Santos Pacheco (Cambridge) - Perkinsids
📅 Tue, Nov 4 - 4 PM CET/3 PM GMT
💻 Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/dinosphere
Please spread the word!
#protistonsky
Join us on Nov 4th, we're hosting:
Edmée Royen (ULiège) - Symbiodinium
Nicolas dos Santos Pacheco (Cambridge) - Perkinsids
📅 Tue, Nov 4 - 4 PM CET/3 PM GMT
💻 Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/dinosphere
Please spread the word!
#protistonsky
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We’re back with the next DinoSphere Online Seminar!
Join us on Nov 4th, we're hosting:
Edmée Royen (ULiège) - Symbiodinium
Nicolas dos Santos Pacheco (Cambridge) - Perkinsids
📅 Tue, Nov 4 - 4 PM CET/3 PM GMT
💻 Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/dinosphere
Please spread the word!
#protistonsky
Join us on Nov 4th, we're hosting:
Edmée Royen (ULiège) - Symbiodinium
Nicolas dos Santos Pacheco (Cambridge) - Perkinsids
📅 Tue, Nov 4 - 4 PM CET/3 PM GMT
💻 Zoom link: sites.google.com/view/dinosphere
Please spread the word!
#protistonsky
Happy to share that the ESEB2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb2025.bsky.social will feature our symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes! 🦠🔬
More info: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
#ESEB2025 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
More info: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
#ESEB2025 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
March 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy to share that the ESEB2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb2025.bsky.social will feature our symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes! 🦠🔬
More info: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
#ESEB2025 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
More info: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...
#ESEB2025 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
With Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan we are very happy to announce the upcoming Latsis Symposium " Shaping microbial life in a changing environment" over July 8-10 at #EPFL
Registrations are open til May 23rd.
LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org
Registrations are open til May 23rd.
LINK: www.epfl-latsis-2025.org
May 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We need to talk about #plankton🌊
To really understand the health of the ocean, we need to know more about these microscopic and mighty organisms.
SAMS' Dr Callum Whyte is an author on a new study calling for change in how we monitor plankton.
📖 www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
To really understand the health of the ocean, we need to know more about these microscopic and mighty organisms.
SAMS' Dr Callum Whyte is an author on a new study calling for change in how we monitor plankton.
📖 www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
Plankton science needs old and new methods, say experts
Study follows on from global Plankton Manifesto
www.sams.ac.uk
February 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🚨 Just under two weeks left to submit your abstract for ESEB2025 - don’t miss the chance to be part of the Symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes 🦠🔬
📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
April 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🚨 Just under two weeks left to submit your abstract for ESEB2025 - don’t miss the chance to be part of the Symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes 🦠🔬
📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
🎉 Big congrats to Alessandro Culicchii, a post-doc in my team! Thanks to the @isme-microbes.bsky.social Mobility Fund, he’s heading to Paris to work with @luciebittner.bsky.social on bacteria and protist association networks in Masurian lakes, using #MicroDivEr data. Good luck!
#ProtistOnSky
#ProtistOnSky
January 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM
🎉 Big congrats to Alessandro Culicchii, a post-doc in my team! Thanks to the @isme-microbes.bsky.social Mobility Fund, he’s heading to Paris to work with @luciebittner.bsky.social on bacteria and protist association networks in Masurian lakes, using #MicroDivEr data. Good luck!
#ProtistOnSky
#ProtistOnSky
📢 Deadline extended to May 5!
Join our #ESEB2025 symposium on symbioses in microbial eukaryotes - from the origin of organelles to their roles in ecosystem functioning. Share your work and meet our great speakers @cstairs.bsky.social & @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
Join our #ESEB2025 symposium on symbioses in microbial eukaryotes - from the origin of organelles to their roles in ecosystem functioning. Share your work and meet our great speakers @cstairs.bsky.social & @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
🚨 Just under two weeks left to submit your abstract for ESEB2025 - don’t miss the chance to be part of the Symposium on the Evolution of Symbiosis and Interactions in Microbial Eukaryotes 🦠🔬
📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
📅 Abstract deadline: April 25, 2025
🔗 More: eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
May 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📢 Deadline extended to May 5!
Join our #ESEB2025 symposium on symbioses in microbial eukaryotes - from the origin of organelles to their roles in ecosystem functioning. Share your work and meet our great speakers @cstairs.bsky.social & @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
Join our #ESEB2025 symposium on symbioses in microbial eukaryotes - from the origin of organelles to their roles in ecosystem functioning. Share your work and meet our great speakers @cstairs.bsky.social & @benkinsjenkins.bsky.social
#ESEB25 #Symbiosis #ProtistOnSky
It's transfection time for Perkinsus marinus and chesapeaki ⚡🦠🧬⚡ Hoping to have some fluorescent parasites in the coming days 🔬 So exciting!! #ProtistOnSky
January 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's transfection time for Perkinsus marinus and chesapeaki ⚡🦠🧬⚡ Hoping to have some fluorescent parasites in the coming days 🔬 So exciting!! #ProtistOnSky
Just got here on this platform. We are a physics meets biology meets math meets engineering meets field work lab focused on uncovering “recreational biology” - whimsical biological puzzles that make you think. Latest from our lab - a protist trying to literally balloon its way up🎈 #protistonsky
November 12, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Just got here on this platform. We are a physics meets biology meets math meets engineering meets field work lab focused on uncovering “recreational biology” - whimsical biological puzzles that make you think. Latest from our lab - a protist trying to literally balloon its way up🎈 #protistonsky
Give some love to @mob-seminar-series.bsky.social that just landed on 🦋 ! Relevant to #protistonsky #plankton
#biophysics #marinemicrobiology
related starter packs
And join us next Tuesday for some microbial interactions dynamics 🥳
#biophysics #marinemicrobiology
related starter packs
And join us next Tuesday for some microbial interactions dynamics 🥳
📢 Excited to host Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social from EMBL speaking online on single-cell ecology and microbial interactions in the ocean!
🗓️ Nov 26 at 11AM EDT / 8AM PDT / 4PM GMT / 5PM CET.
👉 To subscribe: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...
🗓️ Nov 26 at 11AM EDT / 8AM PDT / 4PM GMT / 5PM CET.
👉 To subscribe: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...
November 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Give some love to @mob-seminar-series.bsky.social that just landed on 🦋 ! Relevant to #protistonsky #plankton
#biophysics #marinemicrobiology
related starter packs
And join us next Tuesday for some microbial interactions dynamics 🥳
#biophysics #marinemicrobiology
related starter packs
And join us next Tuesday for some microbial interactions dynamics 🥳
Thank you so much to the amazing LoRe crew for giving me this wonderful opportunity ! It’s been a great time spent chatting together and an honor to get this series of podcasts started 🤩🙏. #protistonsky
My friends in the Life of Retaria group decided to make a podcast! In the first episode, they interview @fabnot.bsky.social about his journey as a scientist. I loved the first episode, hope you do too! @juliemeilland.bsky.social @sandinmm.bsky.social et al.
thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html
thelifeofretaria.github.io/podcast.html
The Life of Retaria Experience
thelifeofretaria.github.io
May 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thank you so much to the amazing LoRe crew for giving me this wonderful opportunity ! It’s been a great time spent chatting together and an honor to get this series of podcasts started 🤩🙏. #protistonsky
Thrilled to start sharing our lab life and research updates here! Kicking things off with a huge congrats to Michał Karlicki on his successful PhD defence! 🎉 So proud of his journey and grateful for all he’s contributed to our team. Here’s to the next chapter, Michał! 💫
#ProtistOnSky
#ProtistOnSky
November 11, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Thrilled to start sharing our lab life and research updates here! Kicking things off with a huge congrats to Michał Karlicki on his successful PhD defence! 🎉 So proud of his journey and grateful for all he’s contributed to our team. Here’s to the next chapter, Michał! 💫
#ProtistOnSky
#ProtistOnSky
Look one example. Division of a Prymnesium faveolatum. NHS staining of expanded cells 😍 Done by @bioarm.bsky.social #Protistonsky #UExM #Mitosis
May 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Look one example. Division of a Prymnesium faveolatum. NHS staining of expanded cells 😍 Done by @bioarm.bsky.social #Protistonsky #UExM #Mitosis
Honored to have presented our work on spatial proteomics and selected for one of the best student presentation awards in this year’s ICOP/ISOP 2025 conference in Seoul! Amazing talks from protistologist from all branches of life 😉 Hope to see you guys next year in Prague! #protistonsky
June 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Honored to have presented our work on spatial proteomics and selected for one of the best student presentation awards in this year’s ICOP/ISOP 2025 conference in Seoul! Amazing talks from protistologist from all branches of life 😉 Hope to see you guys next year in Prague! #protistonsky
January 29, 2024 at 2:14 PM
2/11
For a long time, adaptation has been viewed primarily through genetics.
Mutations arise. Selection acts. Populations evolve.
But organisms often respond to environmental change far faster than classical evolutionary models would predict.
@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
#protistOnSKy
For a long time, adaptation has been viewed primarily through genetics.
Mutations arise. Selection acts. Populations evolve.
But organisms often respond to environmental change far faster than classical evolutionary models would predict.
@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
#protistOnSKy
June 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
2/11
For a long time, adaptation has been viewed primarily through genetics.
Mutations arise. Selection acts. Populations evolve.
But organisms often respond to environmental change far faster than classical evolutionary models would predict.
@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
#protistOnSKy
For a long time, adaptation has been viewed primarily through genetics.
Mutations arise. Selection acts. Populations evolve.
But organisms often respond to environmental change far faster than classical evolutionary models would predict.
@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
#protistOnSKy